The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

